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"Mr President, the fall in the price of cereals, poultry, pork, beef and veal, cheap imports, instability of the international markets – this is all in a day’s work for farmers. Yet agriculture, just like other economic activities, is in dire need of clear prospects for its future development. The mid-term review of the CAP must be used as an opportunity to confirm the objectives set by Agenda 2000 and to reassure farmers that the negotiators are determined to defend our crops and to firmly establish the European agricultural model at the international talks. This task has been made all the more difficult by the Commission defying the views of the Member States in the reform of the common fisheries policy.
The aim of the CAP is to produce a wide-range of crops throughout the Union. Its two pillars must be made consistent in order to guarantee farmers a decent income, the major part of which must be based on the price of products. The common organisations of the market and their market regulatory instruments must continue to play an essential role whilst reinforcing the rural development pillar. The latter must also enable farmers to meet society’s new expectations in terms of quality, environmental protection, animal welfare and financing the additional costs that the market is not ready to assume. However, the second pillar can also become, on the one hand, a tool for innovation by encouraging, for example, varied farming activities, crop diversification such as vegetable protein, and, on the other hand, a tool of the future by encouraging the setting-up of young farmers, in particular by helping farmers return to their activity whilst enabling older farmers to leave the profession in dignified conditions.
The task of rural development is not, however, to tackle all the environmental, social and territorial challenges of the countryside. This is not the role of the CAP either. Its role is to draw up land development policies which fall within the remit and are the responsibility of the Member States by virtue of subsidiarity. The agricultural budget cannot become a substitute for the insufficient financing of projects that have anything other than an agricultural vocation. There might have been the temptation to do this for projects with purely environmental objectives such as the LIFE programmes, to take just one example.
Lastly, enlargement is a further challenge for our farmers. We must ensure that they do not bring into question the already fragile circumstances in both Member States and candidate countries."@en1
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